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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

ABSOLUTELY NO JUSTIFICATION FOR VIGILANTES SHOOTING AT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Senseless and disgusting shootings are not going to solve the illegal immigration problem. State and federal authorities should move against the self-appointed armed border vigilantes.

TWO KILLED AFTER MEN IN CAMOUFLAGE OPEN FIRE ON PICKUP TRUCK SUSPECTED OF CARRYING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTSThe shooting happened near Eloy, Arizona – an area commonly used by human smugglers

By Jill Reilly

Mail OnlineApril 10, 2012

Police are hunting for a gang of gunmen who opened fire on a pickup truck of immigrants, killing two passengers.

The vehicle, thought to be carrying at least 30 immigrants, was ambushed by camouflaged men carrying rifles, on Sunday night near Eloy, Arizona.

The passengers are thought to have been in the country illegally, according to Dawn M. Barkman, a spokeswoman for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.

Police are still unclear as to why the the gunmen opened fire, but the shooting happened in an area commonly used by human smugglers.

The other passengers ran into the desert, five were found hiding nearby and after being interviewed, handed over to Border Patrol.

The reaming migrants have not been found.

Ms Barkman said 'every possibility is being investigated.'

In the past gangs have accosted groups of illegal immigrants that have just been smuggled across the border for monetary gain - they can hold them for ransom or extort money from them.

Police and Border Patrol agents said they responded about 10:35 pm on Sunday evening.

No information about two migrants killed has been released.

It is not the first time that a gang in camouflage has attacked a vehicle passing through the area.

In January 2007, four men wearing camouflage and berets and armed with an assault weapon killed a smuggling suspect and wounded another person after ambushing a vehicle in a field about 40miles north of Eloy.

Then two months later, gunmen wearing dark clothing ambushed a vehicle loaded with more than 20 illegal immigrants near Green Valley, south of Tucson, killing two people.